Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City. Prospect Heights' first brownstone buildings were built during the 1890s, and the neighborhood was known for its diversity from the 1910s to the 1950s, being home to Italian, Irish, German, Jewish, Greek, and Yankee (WASP) residents, and it would have a mixed white and African-American culture as a result of the "Great Migration" during the rest of the 20th century. In 2012, Barclays Center was built as the home of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and the New York Islanders ice hockey team, and new luxury condominiums were also built in the area.